The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

It is the Wright Brothers ' first public flight.

* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

The Wright brothers were the first to fly in a powered and controlled aircraft.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869.

The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.

The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).

The first map to delineate the island under its present name, Diego Garcia, is the World Map of Edward Wright ( London 1599 ), possibly as a result of misreading Dio ( or simply " D .") as Diego, and Gratia as Garcia.

* 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Glenn Curtiss, the chief rival of the Wright brothers, was the first to design a flying car.

Kites were also instrumental in the research and development of the Wright brothers when building the first airplane in the late 1800s.

Hayek's first class at Chicago was a faculty seminar on the philosophy of science attended by many of the University's most notable scientists of the time, including Enrico Fermi, Sewall Wright and Leó Szilárd.

" Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition " at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U. S. The highlight of a celebratory “ Rietveld Year ” in Utrecht, the exhibition “ Rietveld ’ s Universe ” opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.

Theodore Roosevelt appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner of the United States in 1908.

The first vignette, " Strange to Meet You ", had been shot for and aired on Saturday Night Live in 1986, and paired Roberto Benigni with comedian Steven Wright.

In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad " The Bonny Earl O ' Moray ".

SimCity 4 was released in 2003, it was a series first implementing true 3D, as well as the first where Wright was not directly involved with work.

* 1910 – The first air freight shipment ( from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio ) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

Africanist historian Donald R. Wright suggests that Senegambian place-names indicate " that the earliest inhabitants might be identified most closely with one of several related groups — Bainunk, Kasanga, Beafada ... To these were added Serer, who moved southward during the first millennium A. D. from the Senegal River valley, and Mande-speaking peoples, who arrived later still from the east.

* 1909 – Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first ' pilot ' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

The captain of the club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St Mary's, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and immunology.

Wright became a permanent member in 1959, making the " classic " Quartet's personnel complete.

Fawkes's fellow students included John Wright and his brother Christopher ( both later involved with Fawkes in the Gunpowder plot ) and Oswald Tesimond, Edward Oldcorne and Robert Middleton, who became priests ( the latter executed in 1601 ).

However, the overdriven sound of the Hammond gained a new image when it became part of 1960s and 1970s rock with artists like Alan Price, Gregg Allman, Steve Winwood, Rick Wright, Keith Emerson, Jon Lord, Matthew Fisher, Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks and Jack McDuff.

As The Sims became a steady success, Will Wright began to focus on Spore.

In 1989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from Madonna.

Wright became the Harlem editor of the Daily Worker.

Wright moved to Paris in 1946, and became a permanent American expatriate.

Wright became ill, victim of a virulent attack of amoebic dysentery probably contracted during his stay on the Gold Coast.

In the last years of his life, Richard Wright became enamored with the haiku and wrote over 4, 000 such poems.

Attacks by Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright on the western edge of the Mule Shoe, which became known as the " Bloody Angle ", involved almost 24 hours of desperate hand-to-hand fighting, some of the most intense of the Civil War.

It became clear to Griffin then that Wright would not make Griffin a partner in his business.

Much later in the 19th century, the African American Galveston civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney rose to become the head of the Texas Republican Party and became one of the most important Southern black leaders of the century.

The young, flawed, and brooding antihero Spider-Man became the most widely imitated archetype in the superhero genre since the appearance of Superman and Batman .— Bradford W. Wright, Comic Book Nation: The transformation of Youth Culture in America 212 — Superman on the Couch by Danny Fingeroth 151

Kitty Hawk became famous after the Wright brothers of Dayton, Ohio, made the first controlled powered airplane flights at the Kill Devil Hills, four miles ( 6 km ) south of the town, on December 17, 1903.

The Wright Brothers used wing warping instead of ailerons for roll control, and initially, their aircraft had much better control in the air than aircraft that used movable surfaces ; however, as aileron designs were refined, and aircraft became larger and heavier, it became clear that they were much more effective and practical for most aircraft.

Francis Marion (" Bud ") Wright, an Iowa farm boy who migrated to California as a young man, became a ranch hand for Senator Porter and later co-developer of the Hawk Ranch, which is now Northridge land.

" Zelzah became a Southern Pacific depot town at the Henry Hubbard & " Bud " Wright Hawk Ranch north of Los Angeles.

This structure became home to the Wright family, including sons John Jr. and James.

Following the killing of LVF leader Billy Wright in 1997 Adair became the new contact man for a group of Bolton-based members of the neo-Nazi organisation Combat 18 ( C18 ) who up to that point had been close to the LVF.

Frances Wright ( September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852 ) also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825.

Nashoba lasted about three years until Wright became ill with malaria and moved back to Europe to recover.